National Grid

The president of the Energy Institute spoke to ELN at the Energy Live Expo event in London last week, which attracted more than 450 people from across industry

Packed hall of delegates hear the sector can get to net zero if we adopt an agnostic approach

National Grid CEO John Pettigrew will be joining the stellar panel

It says this is the case even if electricity interconnectors stopped delivering power on the day the UK leaves the EU

Distributed energy company, AMP Clean Energy, has announced it has secured planning for 50 MW of its market-leading Urban Reserve flexible generation plants in areas of high demand, providing energy when and where it is needed most across local distribution networks.

The incident on 9th August left nearly a million homes and businesses across England and Wales in the dark and affected road and rail networks and some hospital services

The process is expected to be delayed following the legal challenge from an unnamed complainant

The Energy Emergencies Executive Committee will review the actions of National Grid and establish what happened to cause the outage and whether correct procedures were followed

Group CEO John Pettigrew has denied claims he was on holiday at the time of the incident and said the ‘UK is not Argentina’ after comparisons with the country, which experienced a massive blackout earlier this year

National Grid Electricity System Operator said the power cut was due to the loss of two large generators – gas and offshore wind – on 9th August